There are more than 50 theories for the function of this 12-sided, pentagonal-faced bronze object — but archaeologists have ...

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

A team of archaeologists has announced a major finding relating to the Neanderthals. They announced the finding in the ...

A common scanning method used to create ‘virtual copies’ of precious fossils could be erasing some of the crucial information ...

Humans have feasted since the dawn of agriculture – but a new find suggests the practice of bringing exotic food to a ...

A shocking discovery in southwestern Kenya is rewriting the history of early human evolution. Ancient tools found alongside ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

A human rib discovered high in the Pyrenees suggests that someone survived a shot in the back several millennia ago.